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- 8081: The Call Of The Wild - Symbolism
- ... these items symbolize. The main character in the book is Buck, a half St. Bernard, half Scotch shepherd dog. In the story, he is betrayed by someone he trusts and is thrown into a harsh world. A world where you must work or be discarded. He adapts to the harsh environment, and soon enough becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Here London makes Buck a symbol of one that reaches full potential ... he kills him along with a number of other Indians. The vein is yet another symbol. It symbolizes Buck’s last tie with civilization. John Thornton was the only thing holding Buck to the civilized world. When he was killed by the Yeehats, Buck would now be a primitive animal. All he had to do was avenge the death of the only man he ever loved, John Thornton. There are ...
- 8082: Gangs
- ... kinship develops between the gang members and the child. It is then that the bond between the kid and the gang is completed because the gang has effectively taken the place of the family. The new anti social structure of cities also effects the ease in which a boy/girl can join a gang. " The formation of gangs in cities, and most recently in suburbs, is facilitated by the same lack ... more people to form organizations like the "Guardian Angels" a gang-like group that makes life very tough for street gangs that are breaking laws. Bibliography Margot Webb, Coping with Street Gangs. Rosen Publishing Group, New York, 1990. William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society. University of Chicago, Chicago, 1955. Peter Carroll, South-Central. Hoyte and Williams, L. A., 1987. 1 Marshall B. Clinard, Sociology of Deviant Behavior. University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 1963, Page 179. 2 Merton Nisbet, Contempory Social Problems. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1971, Page 588.
- 8083: The Book Of Sand
- ... in this paper, Borges wrote philosophy in a lot of his works. In The Book of Sand, infinity is depicted in the form of a mysterious book. It symbolizes man's constant search for the world's existence. Borges is saying that it is an endless search and therefore pointless. The Other is the story of Borges sitting on a bench, as he feels as though he had lived that moment ... of unlimited English books."(Here, he was referring to his father's library) He was also greatly influenced by published poets and writers who were friends of the family and often visited. In 1914, before World War I, Borges' family went to Europe where they traveled until the war was over. During these years of traveling, Borges, in his teenage years, depended a lot on the company of his readings (mainly ... economically flourishing and modernized (due to European immigrants) home. Researchers note that many of Borges' poems centered on the older sections of the city, as if he is trying to recapture the "essence of a world that was disappearing before him". By the early 1920's, Borges had joined a group of young writers and he undertook the publication of a literary review. He wrote in "Prisma" , a magazine of ...
- 8084: The Bluest Eye
- ... could not destroy the honey voices of parents and aunts, the obedience in the eyes of our peers, the slippery light in the eyes of our teachers when they encouraged the Maureen Peals of the world. What was the secret? What did we lack? Why was it important? And so what?. . . And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred ... and blood Pauline’s obsession with the white girl she cares for causes Pecola’s life to head downwards in a destructive spiral. This spiral for Pecola includes assuming that everyone is jealous of her new found beauty, her blue eyes. She decides that the reason her neighbors refuse to talk to her is because they are resentful of her imaginary eyes. "I’d just like to do something else besides ... watch you stare in that mirror. You’re just jealous. I am not. You are. You wish you had them. Ha. What would I look like with blue eyes? Nothing much"(194). In Pecola’s world, pulchritude is what keeps everyone away. This concept of beauty is driving her into a world of delusion. In order for Pecola to be happy, she creates the reverie of being beautiful. She assumes ...
- 8085: Self Reliance
- ... so bad then to be misunderstood?"(pg. 129)This concept viewed by Ralph Waldo Emerson makes the point that self reliance creates individuality. As one goes through life proving hers or his ideas to the world relying on her judgments resources, and abilities whether they are right or wrong they prove your point. Some of us are strong enough to stand our ideas others give up their ideas too quickly. By doing one or another we prove our worth to the world. What is more important we prove our worth to ourselves. By dealing with other people, we interfere with their lives whether we want to or not. Rely on yourself in dealing with other people. By ... me. Therefore, trying to prove my point of view using self reliance I might create a problem. I also build a wall around myself when I am afraid to get hurt. In today's big world it is very easy to lose your individuality. Most of the time you are just a name without a face. When someone takes away you're name you are left with nothing. "I have ...
- 8086: Emily Dickinson 4
- ... a permanent separation: death. Death was only one more thing that Dickinson knew of which kept people apart. The death of her friends and family forced her to acknowledge the loneliness and separateness of this world. Dickinson s preoccupation with death began when she was a young child and continued throughout her life. (Wolff: 84) She was a meditative child, sensitive and serious, and began to marvel over the mystery of death and new birth at a very early age. It was Dickinson s belief that after death, life on earth was over in all aspects and people lost all connections with previous lives and gained morbid equality. There ... the Bible as though it were a rhetorical manual. Perhaps because her father was an austere religious man who enforced his religious beliefs on her that Dickinson resisted conformity. Dickinson was a true product of New England Puritanism. Her vision of the Godhead never entirely surpasses the gross facts of experience and never entirely evades the interference of ideas. Believing that there is a God only gave her something solid ...
- 8087: The Morality Of Creating Life
- ... agonizing shock of self-discovery, 'All men hate the wretched'" (??). Whereas the cloning of humans may not produce a being like Victor's creation, there is little doubt that society may react harshly to this new type of being. The expectations would be enlarged for the creation, which may lead to negative consequences for both the creation and society. Society would be forever changed once a creature was cloned. Maureen Noelle ... on the society in Frankenstein. She writes, "The monster is a problem both for himself and for Victor; more specifically, the monster forces what we might call the psychological re-mapping of the native human world" (967). The drastic changes that society could be forced to deal with could cause problems for the creature, but more so for society. Learning to deal with a being that knows it is the only ... would have implied an inferiority that is not true. There are many supporters of cloning. Well Hello, Dolly is an article that supports cloning. The idea of creating life by controversial means is not a new idea. In vitro fertilization was a major concern to many people fifteen years ago. Dr. Kenneth D. Pimple, author of The Ethics of Human Cloning and the Fate of Science in a Democratic Society, ...
- 8088: Edgar De Gas
- Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas was born on July 19, 1834, at 8 rue Saint-George's in Paris. His father, Auguste, a banker, was French, and his mother, Célestine, an American from New Orleans. The family name "Degas" had been changed to "De Gas" by some family members in Naples and France in order to sound more aristocratic; the preposition indicated a name derived from land holdings. Degas ... daily life. Degas eventually ended his efforts at history painting and devoted more attention to portraiture, turning images of relatives and friends into complex psychological studies. His oils and pastels depict the inhabitants of the world of sports, business, ballet, and the cafes in their self-conscious posturing and characteristic gestures. He has numerous paintings of jockeys, dancers, laundresses and prostitutes. Another favorite subject was a model at her bath. Degas ... Edgar died on September 27, 1917. He is well represented in the Louvre in Paris. Some paintings displayed there include The glass of Absinthe, Laundresses, and Prima Ballerina. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. in New York, Pouting, and Women with Chrysanthemums are on display for all to see. Degas is commonly regarded as on of the greatest masters of 19th century ...
- 8089: The American and Japanese Social System
- ... The Emperor of Japan descends from an Imperial House that has been more or less in direct succession for 1500 years. When the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Spanish and the British went out around the world creating colonies, Japan was hardly touched. We need to keep in mind also some simple facts. Japan is the most densely populated country in the world. It has the most educated population known to human history. The Japans are extremely orderly. Crime rates, for example, generally run about one tenth or ours and one half those in Europe.(State, 10) At ... cases childlike or unsocialized.(State, 11) Many problems in the Us relationship with Japan have a cross cultural dimension. The cultural influences under which the two societies developed were about as distinct as any the world. It is not surprising, therefore, that Americans and Japanese apply rather strikingly different value systems as they attempt to cope with the world. The Japanese have maintained a very homogeneous society, ad for the ...
- 8090: The Awakening
- ... with their dinner and brandy after it, smoked cigarettes, played Chopin sonatas, and listened to the men tell risque stories. It was, in short, far more French than American, and Mrs.Chopin reproduced this little world with no specific intent to shock or make a point. . . . Rather, these were for Mrs.Chopin the conditions of civility. . . . People openly like[d] one another, enjoy[ed] life, and savor[ed] its sensual riches ... the 1890s woman began to become more recognized and started gathering power and strength in their society. They also were being allowed to expand possibilities which are strongly shown through the French-Creole culture. The New Orleans Daily Picayune was the first newspaper to be edited by a woman and to become a well-known American paper (Culley 121). During the 1890s this paper helped a number of women’s causes ... When she get intermixed with Creoles it showed her what she was missing, but was not able to grasp so that she could fit in to society for once. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. New York: Avon, 1998. Culley, Margo. "Editor’s Note: Contexts of "The Awakening." "The Awakening": An Eaton Clement. The Civilization of the Old South. Ed. Albert D. Kirwan. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1968. 83. ...
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